Why do Republicans hate sex and marijuana?

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17. Drugs were equated with Black and Hispanic populations purposefully the by government

First - to give the bureau that enforced prohibition something to do after it was repealed, and secondly, to give institutional racism a justification.

Like so much of the post-Nixon drug war, Anslinger staged his campaign as a moral crusade against certain kinds of users: dissidents, the counterculture, and especially immigrants and blacks. According to Alexander Cockburn’s Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press, Anslinger’s “first major campaign was to criminalize the drug commonly known as hemp. But Anslinger renamed it ‘marijuana’ to associate it with Mexican laborers,” and claimed that the drug “can arouse in blacks and Hispanics a state of menacing fury or homicidal attack.” Anslinger “became the prime shaper of American attitudes to drug addiction.” And like later despisers of rock ‘n’ roll and hip-hop, Anslinger’s hatred of jazz motivated many of his targeted attacks.

“Marijuana is taken by… musicians,” he told Congress in 1937, “And I’m not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.” Although the La Guardia Committee would refute almost everything Anslinger testified to about the effects of smoking pot, the damage was already done. (Anslinger’s prosecution of jazz musicians, particularly Louis Armstrong—paralleled that of another power-mad, paranoid bureaucrat, J. Edgar Hoover.)

Anslinger did not simply dislike jazz. He feared it. “It sounded,” he wrote, “like the jungles in the dead of night.” In jazz, “unbelievably ancient indecent rites of the East Indies are resurrected.” And the lives of jazz musicians “reek of filth.”

It's worth noting that while Judy Garland was told to "get help" by the authorities for her drug use, Billie Holiday was prosecuted, and prohibited from performing in any venue that served alcohol.

They only hate sex when it's a woman who is doing it for pleasure. The threat of unwanted pregnancy is a behavior modification tool, and allows them to monitor women's sexual activity.

If a woman is not at home with children, then there's a chance she will be competing with men in the workplace and community leadership. And we've seen how a woman (especially an older woman who doesn't seem to be cowed by the disapproval of men) is treated when she dares to think she's qualified to be president.

Having sex AND being in the public sphere is the privilege of men, not women. Men in the workplace and leadership are assumed to have a full time domestic to handle things there to make it possible for him to give his important work the priority it deserves.